Thinking Activity: Cultural Studies : Media Power and truly educated person

 Thinking Activity:

Cultural studies:

Media power and truly educated person

Hello readers,

Here I'm going to write a blog on the topic 'Cultural studies :Media power and truly educated person' which is assigned by prof. Dilip Barad sir . So, let's begin…

Power:

So What is "Power"? Power plays a vital role in the study of culture. Without power the study of culture is incomplete, and power is connected to the extensive use of media.There are six main sources of civic power ...

1) Physical forces

2) Wealth

3) State action

4) Social norms

5) Ideas

6) Numbers

• There are three laws of Power:-

1) Power is never static

2) Power is like water

3) Power compounds 

Power is everywhere around us. To read power, one has to start thinking about the things which happen around them. Think how it happens and which type of power is working behind it. After having the habit of doing this one can understand the power and also can save themselves from the trap of power.

Media

Noam Chomsky gives five filters about mass media:

• Media ownership

• Advertising

• Media Elite

• Flack

• The common enemy

Noam Chomsky is talking about mass media and how mass media controls the perceptions of large numbers of populations. In our day to day life who decides how certain things work? Well, seemingly it is the government but behind that it is mass media or newspapers, news channels which control our perception. We blindly believe what news channels tell us but, before showing any news to us, news channels also filter the news. They decide what to show and what not to show, they decide how debates are going to end, in a way every certain thing which news channels are showing is pre-decided and planned or we can say scripted. Media controls the elite group of the population and it makes us think in a way which they want.

At last they are talking about what actually is being a truly educated person and as Noam Chomsky says, “It's not important what you cover in class, it's important what you discover”. It is about to inquire and create constructively, independently without external controls. Truly educated person has the spirit of questioning, they don’t accept what comes to them they question in a certain way to identify the fact.

Conclusion:

So, this is how power controls the media and the media controls people but the work of a truly educated person is not to believe everything first question then believe what comes from what your understanding says.

Thank you…

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